dying is not enough: though the plate had no wheels, it spun anyways, to appease the pools of black and their need for purposeless motion

a kid eats a bag of original lays and watches TikTok videos of how to properly taxidermy a severed head his parents discuss a new Starbucks reward program and the points it might take for a new plastic cup nearby a woman gazes at a photo of her living room and wonders why the new paint didn’t let her see the afterlife